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 A HISTORY OF SURREY

��date Turberville was annexed to the manor of Tal- worth, which had also another member called Wyke. After the death and forfeiture of Hugh le Despenser an extent of the manor of Talworth with its members Wyke and Turberville was taken in l^zj, K whereby it appears that at Talworth there was a moated mansion-house with a gateway and drawbridge, which contained two halls (aule), six chambers, kitchen and scullery, bake-house and brew-house and a chapel. Beyond the moat were the lands pertain- ing, and two granges, two ox-houses with stable and pig-sty, a garden and a water-mill. Suit was ren- dered to this manor by tenants holding thirty-two and a half knights' fees, and the quarter of a fee.* 6 At Wyke there was a messuage, various lands and tenants. To the messuage at Turberville a chapel was attached. The mill which was known as ' Brayest Mulne ' was held of the lord of Long Ditton. In the same yeir Talworth was granted to Edmund Earl of Kent, 67 who in 1330 was sentenced to death on a charge of being engaged in a plot to assist his brother the king, Edward II, who was said to have escaped from Berkeley, but in reality because he opposed the rule of Mortimer and the queen-mother. He died seised of the manor of Talworth with its members Wyke and Turberville, held of the honour of Gloucester by service of the fourth part of a knight's fee.* 8 In 1330 Roger Husee petitioned the king for the manor of Turberville, as the heir of John de Berewyk, 6 * but this petition had apparently no effect. In 1330 Bartholomew de Burghersh was granted Talworth for life ; 70 but this grant must have been revoked when the young Earl of Kent was restored in his blood and honours in the year following the overthrow of Mortimer. The king then granted to Margaret wife of the late Earl of Kent the custody of the manor, to hold for John the younger son of Edmund," although Edmund the elder son did not die until 1333. William de Arderne in 1332 sued the countess," apparently without success, for the manor of Wyke, which was still held by her as a member of Talworth in 1 347, ? * and John Earl of Kent died in 1352 seised of the manor and its members." His sister Joan, the Fair Maid of Kent, was his heir. This Joan and her husband, Thomas de Holand, granted the manor of Talworth for life to Sir Otho de Holand, his younger brother, who died in 1359," when the manor

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��reverted to Sir Thomas de Holand, who died in

��1360, leaving his son Thomas as heir. 76 The last- named Thomas died in 1397 seised of the manor of Talworth held of Lord le Despenser, and also seised of a toft, two carucates of land and a water-mill in the parish of Kingston, called ' Turbelvyle,' held of the king for l8/. rent at his manor of Sheen. 77 He left a son Thomas through whom once more Tal- worth became an escheat. This last Thomas de Holand was created Duke of Surrey in 1 397, and was in favour with Richard II, but after that king's deposition his title of duke was annulled, and grants were rescinded that had been made to him since the meeting of the preceding Parliament. Joining in a conspiracy against Henry IV he was taken at Cirencester and executed by the inhabitants there in January I399-I4OO. 78 He was attainted and his estates were confiscated." Alice, his father's widow, was holding the manor at her death in 1416, and as his brother Edmund, who was apparently allowed to succeed to Thomas's estates, died without issue in 1 408, the manor passed eventually to Sir John de Nevill, kt., son of Ralph first Earl of Westmorland, who had married Elizabeth, one of the sisters of this last-named Thomas de Holand. 80 She died in January 1422-3, and Ralph de Nevill the second Earl of Westmorland was her son and heir. 81 He granted the manor for the rent of a rose to his son John, who mar- ried Anne daughter of John Holand, Duke of Exeter, and died in March 14501 without issue. 8 * Anne being left a widow married her late husband's heir, who was his uncle Sir John de Nevill, kt. 83 At her death in 1486 she was holding the manor, her son and heir being Ralph third Earl of Westmorland. 84 He settled the manor on his son Ralph and his son's wife Edith, but Ralph dying before him in 1498, the manor reverted to him and passed at his death to his grandson Ralph then aged four years, 85 subject, how- ever, to the life-interest of Edith, who married Thomas, Lord Darcy. 86 Queen Elizabeth by her letters patent confirmed the manor to Ralph's son Henry fifth Earl of Westmorland in 1559," an< * h e ' n the same year granted it to Sir Ambrose Cave under the name of Talworth alias Talworth Court." Sir Ambrose in 1564 conveyed the manor to George Evelyn. 89 The manor remained with the Evelyn family * until the death of Sir Edward Evelyn, bart., in 1692, who left three heirs; Edward Hill son of his daughter Anne, Mary wife of Sir William Glynne,

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��ei Chan. Inq. p.m. Misc. file 103, no. 18. Herein described as acquired by the king from Thomas Corbett, and by him granted to Le Despenser. The inquisition was taken when Le Despenser was adjudged a traitor and the king was a prisoner.

68 These may be the tenants of the honours of Gloucester and Clare in Surrey.

W Chart. R. I Edw. Ill, m. 43, no. 82.

68 Inq. p.m. 4 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 38.

Par/. R. ii, 48*.

'i Cal. Pat. 1327-30, p. 516.

~ l Abbrev. Rot. Orig. (Rec. Com.), ii, 55 ; De Banco R. 291, m. 22$ d.

? a De Banco R. 291, m. 225 d.

''Cal. Chie, 1346-9, p. 280.

��' 4 Chan. Inq. p.m. 26 Edw. Ill (ist nos.), no. 54. The extent of Talworth gives a capital messuage, moated, an old mill, land and rents ; and at Turberville was a water-mill, a messuage, garden and land held of the king at of the manor of Sheen.

7* Chan. Inq. p.m. 34 Edw. Ill, no. 37.

" 6 Ibid. 35 Edw. Ill, pt. i, no. 104.

"Inq. p.m. 20 Ric. II, no. 30.

7" G.E.C. Peerage.

WFineR. i Hen. IV, m. 18.

80 Inq. p.m. 4 Hen. V, no. 51. He had five sisters, Eleanor, Countess of March, Joan, Duchess of York, Margaret, Duchess of Clarence, Eleanor, Countesi

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��of Salisbury, and Elizabeth, who were heirs on the death of their brother. Margaret, the Duchess of Clarence, held half a fee in Talworth in 1418 (Feud. Aid*, v, 122).

81 Chan. Inq. p.m. I Hen. VI, no. 45.

2 Ibid. 29 Hen. VI, no. 13.

88 Manning and Bray, Surr. iii. 19.

M Exch. Inq. p.m. file 1059, no. 9.

85 Inq. p.m. (Ser. 2), xiv, 98.

88 L. and P. Hen. Vlll, i, 721 ; Feet of F. Div. Co. Trin. 16 Hen. VII.

V Pat. i Eliz. pt. ii, m. i.

88 Feet of F. Surr. Mich. I & 2 Eliz.

89 Pat, 3 Eliz. pt. iv, m. z ; Feet of F. Surr. HiU 6 Eliz.

90 Vide Long Ditton tupra.

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